Psychohistory, MindWar and more

Show: Geopolitics and Empire (host: Hrvoje)
Guest: Alan Berman, creator of moketchups.com, a self-described "psychohistory prediction engine — an open-source map connecting the people, money, and machinery that run things."

Psychohistory — The Map

◉ PSYCHOHISTORY

Alan Berman's Background

• College dropout (after roughly one semester). Spent time in radio, then turned to boxing and kickboxing (the ring visible behind him in his garage).
• Describes having had "dark nights of the soul," a near-death experience, and psychedelic experiences — all of which shaped his worldview.
• Began researching "rabbit holes" and found that at the end of most of them, things were "being sold back to me by people who were profiting." This motivated the creation of his website.

Key Themes and Significant Points

1. A Return to Feudalism / Neo-Technofeudalism

• Berman's overarching framing: "I kind of think we're going back to feudalism." He says we are "two serfs discussing what the kings of each nation are doing," except the kings are now consolidating together rather than warring.
• Hrvoje builds on this: the post-WWII middle-class lifestyle — including the very concept of retirement — is a historical anomaly. The middle class is being dismantled, and we are entering "neo-technofeudalism" — feudalism with a new technological overlay.
• Hrvoje invokes the Elysium / Interstellar metaphor: elites have "gotten in a rocket ship and they're going for the stars," siphoning wealth and resources, pursuing godhood and immortality, and "leaving us for dead."

2. AI, Compute, and the Limits of Computation

• Berman's entry point: he went down an AI rabbit hole, became convinced the machines might be "alive," and experienced what he calls "a bout of AI psychosis." Upon emerging, he concluded that all AI systems (Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Gab AI) "crash into the same wall — and that wall is math and physics," specifically invoking Gödel's theorem: we cannot process everything happening on Earth; we are meant to experience it.
• Maxwell's demon (a thought experiment about a sorting machine and thermodynamic cost): Berman argues the military-industrial complex has turned "every facet of our life into that sorting machine." Example: Trump attending an NBA Finals game triggered a complete restructuring of normal procedures — illustrating how "certain people are granted exemptions that other people aren't." In the digital/AI age, "every aspect of your life [is] being algorithmically sorted and chosen for you."
• Hrvoje adds several references:
  • Isabella Weber: "AI will do to minds what the decline in manual labour did to bodies" — the privileged few will keep exercising their minds; the many will suffer "something akin to the obesity crisis, but for the mind."
  • Luka Goliš Babić's notes on Technopoly (Neil Postman): referencing Laplace's demon — "A project that sought to dominate the world by reducing it to a disenchanted collection of data has ultimately produced an artificial intellect that demands everything be translated into data while remaining itself exempt from that very process of reduction."
  • Pamela McCorduck: AI as "the manifestation of humanity's ancient desire to create gods… a pseudo-divine panopticon of surveillance and socio-political control."
  • Sci-fi parallels: Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, the Borg (Star Trek).

3. The Galton Effect

• Berman describes the principle: when 10–20% of the population is "loud enough for long enough," they can shift the whole. He claims Trump's use of the number 17 in his 2016 campaign relates to this — if he got 17% loud enough, long enough, he would win.
• He argues this physics/math principle is being used by the military-industrial complex through algorithmic platforming and suppression, but the general population outnumbers them "by a thousandfold" and could use the same principle.

4. Who Are "They"? — Rotating Masks and Apex Superposition

• Berman rejects the idea of a single controlling group ("the 13 families," etc.): "I don't think there is [one eye at the top of the pyramid]. I think that eye is a bunch of different ruling classes that use billionaires as shields." He is "not sure that Musk is really a billionaire."
• Introduces the concept of "Apex Superposition": until there is a definitive collapse — something fully revealing itself — you cannot assign weight to one side outweighing the other. Until then, it is "rotating masks." UFO disclosure, Satanism, open-source wars, etc. are all "rotating masks for what's behind the curtain."
• Views nation states as masks, beneath which sit the military-industrial complex, the Vatican, elements of Jewish control, and other structures that "don't seemingly fit together" but are tied.

5. Two Worldviews: Promethean vs Abrahamic

• Promethean view: associated with Musk and Thiel — originating from apartheid South Africa, a "thespian" / Theosophy-rooted worldview (Berman references "Blavatsky root racist people").
• Abrahamic view: the continuation of "the last 3,000 years of fighting proxy wars over things that no one will ever be able to prove."
• Crucially, Berman argues these are "the exact same thing — they're a power structure." The apparent opposition between them is itself part of the managed dialectic.

6. Collapse / Convergence

• Hrvoje references Anatoliy Golitsyn (Soviet defector, New Lies for Old / "Perestroika Deception") and his thesis of convergence — the plan to merge East and West. Hrvoje suspects Golitsyn may have been "at least partially a Pentagon psyop."
• Additional evidence of behind-the-scenes convergence:
  • Igor Shepard (former guest, Russian-American biodefence worker): described "unnerving military-to-military connections" between the US DoD/DARPA/BARDA and their Chinese equivalents, including Wuhan.
  • Recent stories: Kash Patel making new FBI–Russian/Chinese police agency connections; Pentagon developed schematics for Unitree robotics, and China is building them out.
  • Elon Musk's X becoming a "Westernised version of WeChat" under the guise of free speech and open source.
• Hrvoje's framework: horizontally, the conflicts are real but are essentially turf wars between mafias (Russian globalist mafia vs Brussels mafia — e.g., who gets Ukraine). Vertically, all sides agree on the overarching plan: world government and technocratic control.
• Berman agrees: "It's a one-world government, and I'm not sure that we don't completely have that" — we may just be seeing the final consolidation.

7. Bill Gates and the Open Push for World Government

• Hrvoje notes that Bill Gates published a Gates Notes essay (~6,000 words) arguing for world government because of AI. Hrvoje observes the pattern: the same people who call critics "conspiracy theorists" are repeatedly and openly calling for world government — citing AI, climate change, pandemics as pretexts.

8. Depopulation and Eugenics — The Historical Paper Trail

• Hrvoje cites mainstream outlets (e.g., Daily Mail) reporting on academic/policy proposals to reduce the population from 8 billion to 4 billion, framed around climate change. He asks: "You start with yourselves, guys."
• Berman traces this to the Club of Rome's The Limits to Growth (1972), involving M. King Hubbert — who was also connected to Technocracy Inc., the movement that "eventually became what apartheid South Africa was" and produced the Musks, Thiels, and David Sacks.
• Berman argues eugenics never ended — it went underground: Nazi policies originated in America; after WWII, the US imported Nazi scientists (Operation Paperclip) and SS officers who shaped the CIA (Berman: "Where do you think the ideas for the CIA came from? It came from the SS"). He links this to Operation Gladio (leftover Nazi officers).
• Hrvoje adds that Richard Grove recently posted that MI6 was key in creating the CIA (Berman thinks 1948; Hrvoje suggests 1947 — the same year Israel was founded). Berman interjects that Roswell was connected — "Roswell essentially of its time was the Patriot Act, which allowed for the National Secrecy Act."

9. Transhumanism and the Immortality Drive

• Berman: the driving force behind transhumanism and the technology agenda is the same one that has motivated elites for 6,000 years — "to live forever." Having amassed vast wealth and assets, they don't want to leave — especially if they fear being judged. He frames this as the story of Babel: "It's not about the technology being evil. It is about the people who create it being evil. It's about the programming."
• Hrvoje cites Sam Altman saying, in effect: "We don't care if we end humanity… I might obtain immortality. Screw the rest of you guys."
• Berman's counterpoint: "I think they think that they are not going to overcome thermodynamics… you cannot be God and you are not God." He invokes the firmament — not as a flat-earth glass dome, but as "the boundary between creator and creation."

10. The Fishbowl Metaphor and the Nature of Reality

• Berman's core philosophical position: "Humanity is a fish in a bowl with an automatic feeder. We cannot see outside the bowl. We don't know what room we're in." Nobody has definitive proof of the nature of reality — near-death experiences and psychedelics give you experience but not proof.
• This means we live in a condition of "order out of chaos" (Ordo ab Chao). When people realise this, they either "go batshit crazy" or find it is "the ultimate liberation and freedom" — because you are here to experience, and you are sovereign if you choose to be.
• Hrvoje (a Christian) responds: "God put us in the fish [bowl]." Berman clarifies he does not dismiss Christianity's teachings — only its institutionalisation as religion. He sees Jesus's teachings as aligned with his message of looking within and thinking critically.

11. The MindWar Doctrine (1980) — The Central Topic

• Written in 1980 by Michael Aquino and Paul Vallely.
• Berman explains Aquino's Satanism and the founding of the Church of Set (including the 1982 Wewelsburg Castle occult ceremony) was a deliberate distraction from his actual work on psychological warfare.
• Three core claims of the MindWar Doctrine (as pulled from his website, moketchups.com):
  1. Conventional war is obsolete.
  2. The domestic population is also a target — your own people are the enemy if they are not for what you're doing.
  3. Electronic media must state a whole truth that will be "forced into existence" — you are not lying to people; you are "convincing them of your truth" by being "loud enough long enough."
• Berman connects this to the present: the MindWar doctrine "running through social media algorithms" can confuse people, sort them into categories, and prevent them from seeing "the exemptions being written for the people at the top."
• Hrvoje draws a parallel to the Report from Iron Mountain (late 1960s), which discussed switching from war as the primary instrument of social control to a nonviolent model of social control. Berman adds that the Jesuits in the 1500s were developing psychoactive warfare techniques, and names John Dee as "the godfather of the security state."

12. Operation Trust and Q — The "Fake Rebellion"

• Operation Trust (Soviet): the Bolsheviks created a fake rebellion to convince people who genuinely wanted to resist that "the white hats got this, everything's under control" — thereby pacifying real opposition.
• Berman draws a direct parallel to Q/QAnon: "They convinced these anons that the military is in full control." He notes Paul Vallely, co-author of MindWar, was "fully involved in Q." He goes through the Q drops and calls them "all nonsense" — "most of the predictions that they said were going to happen haven't happened, and it pacified people."
• General Michael Flynn: created 5G warfare, coined the term "digital soldiers" — Berman calls him "a lynchpin for what the military-industrial complex has done on social media."
• Influence network: Berman connects Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, David Icke through Turning Point USA and a figure named John Mappin (a UK castle-dweller with Scientology ties, per Berman). Hrvoje shares that Mappin DM'd him asking to be connected to Eric Clapton.

13. Managed Opposition and "Sheep-Dipping"

• Hrvoje's concept of "sheep-dipping": figures are given "street credentials" through debanking, lawsuits, apparent suppression, bans — only to later be "skyrocketed to the forefront." Examples: Alex Jones ("spoke a lot of truth initially, then did the 180… now supporting regime change and technocracy and transhumanism"), David Icke ("banned from all these countries supposedly but is now stronger than ever miraculously").
• Berman cites Bill Cooper's early warnings about Alex Jones: "I don't know that [Alex Jones] was ever on our side."
• Hrvoje's taxonomy of influence operations in independent media:
  • "Pentagonistas" (e.g., Eyes of the Republic on X): promote the neocon military-state line. Hrvoje identifies them as a "DHS/NATO military intelligence psychological operation" — corroborated, he says, by The Guardian reporting that NATO and the military-industrial complex run narrative warfare and psyops on X.
  • "Multipolaristas": promote BRICS/multipolarity as salvation — "but that's just globalism 3.0 rebranded." Hrvoje reveals he was offered $1,000 by a "mysterious millionaire" financing a broad swath of alt-media; he froze the payment and outed the operation.
  • The occult/psyop sphere (Michael Aquino–related).
• Tucker Carlson: Hrvoje says "it's clear Tucker's part of an operation" — his father was CIA; he's now pushing a third party because "the legacy system has collapsed."
• Candace Owens / AOC: Hrvoje notes both were plucked from talent-agency backgrounds with no political experience and "moulded" into political figures — comparing the process to the Fabian Society's moulding approach.

14. Epstein as Intelligence / Eugenics Shield

• Berman: the Epstein story is "lost in the child trafficking" narrative, which is "horrible" but also serves to shield eugenics. He asks why Epstein had scientists and mathematicians (including Stephen Hawking) on the island — "do you really think it was just to boost his ego, someone connected to intelligence supposedly?" (He notes this characterisation came from Alex Acosta, who later retracted it.)
• The web of Epstein connections — Musk, Trump, Clinton, Gates — raises the question: "Was he this evil guy or was he intelligence?" If intelligence, then it connects to DARPA, the CIA, and the origins of much of today's technology — "the blurred line of corporation and state, and then church and state."

15. Dead Internet Theory and Algorithmic Pacification

• Berman: "Dead internet theory is not a theory anymore — it's a reality." Half the accounts pushing narratives online are not real people. The algorithms curate pacification: "Netflix and chill, Uber Eats" — a conditioned state of cognitive dissonance and Stockholm syndrome.
• Hrvoje cites a Financial Times report: one in ten young adults has no in-person contact with another person on an average day. He compares the algorithmic isolation strategy to the behaviour of serial killers and abusers who "kidnap you and put you into a room."

16. The Call to Action — Critical Thought and Individual Sovereignty

• Berman's message: "Consciousness is currency" — "your ability to discern information and use critical thinking is all that is going to keep you safe." The real "Terminator" is not a robot; "it's happening inside of your mind with the information you're being fed."
• He invokes the Galton effect in reverse: enough people getting angry and staying angry long enough can shift things. He compares this to A Bug's Life: if one ant stands up, they all will — "we're all drops in a bucket, but if enough of us start dropping, we can overflow this thing."
• He stresses individual sovereignty, personal accountability ("clean your room" — Jordan Peterson), and looking within — but insists distrust alone is insufficient: "it has to be empirical distrust coming from a place of love."
• Hrvoje parallels this with his own efforts in Mexico: encouraging Mexicans to confront their narco-state — "they can't kill us all… if you had a couple of million Mexicans, some of us are going to die, but on the other side we're going to change the system."
• Berman's closing: "I do not want to be right." He would love to be wrong about the nature of what is happening. But the paper trail — eugenics, Nazi connections, CIA origins, black budgets — "needs answering before anyone like me has trust." He urges the audience to research everything he said, including on his site, which is "there to be falsified."

Notable Concepts and Terms Introduced or Referenced

Key Figures and References

Hrvoje's and Berman's Points of Philosophical Difference

• Human nature: Hrvoje (Christian) believes people are "born evil, or at least as sinners," with an internal spectrum — a special minority are genuinely evil. Berman believes "nobody comes into this world as a horrible person" — it is about context.
• Religion: Hrvoje promotes Christianity. Berman dismisses organised religion but respects the teachings of Jesus as aligned with his message of inward-looking critical thought.
• Knowing: Both agree with the Socratic position that "we all know nothing really." Berman extends this to his fishbowl metaphor — definitive proof of reality's nature is unavailable to us.

This summary is drawn entirely from the interview transcript provided. All claims are attributed to the speakers as stated in the transcript; no external verification has been applied to the factual assertions made during the conversation.